On the wire – Science
In this update of on the wire I am looking at only one site (well almost) – The University of Utah – Genetics Learning Centre (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/).
This is a brilliant aid to the science teacher and the senior biologist. So lets see what this site has for us…
1. Homepage (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/) – this links through to a variety of pages, most with a genetics theme but also an interesting look at the ecology of salt lake.
2. Amazing cells (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/) – this is the portal page for animations, interactive activities, videos and alike – a couple of stand out pages are: Cell size and scale http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/(a brilliant interactive resources showing cell etc) and Inside a cell http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/insideacell/(this interactive allows you to select cell compenets and have these explained to you)
They also produce resources for teachers – http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/ for cell biology.
3. The Genetics section is also very well resourced with sections on:
- Protien synthesis – http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/
- Heredity - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/
- Epigenetics – http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/
- Cloning – http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/
Plus a great resource page which indexes their easily accessable materials and lesson plans – http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/
4.Tap into the world of comics - http://www.slideshare.net/shend5/tap-into-the-world-of-comics this is a slideshare presentation on 21 uses for comics in the classroom and contains some great resources
5. Finally a quick one from the read write web – what will the internet look like in 5 years time – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_web_in_five_years.php – This is from Google’s Eric Schmidt
